Syntactic development, its input and output

Anat Ninio*

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Abstract

This book places the syntactic learning process under close scrutiny. The focus of the book is on the characteristics of linguistic input and the resultant output, which, the book shows, do not necessarily follow the orderly uniform processes assumed by some versions of formalistic linguistic theory. Unique to this book is its reliance on very large English corpora of parental speech and child utterances, revealing surprising new facts about the input and output of syntactic development. Drawing on linguistic theory (the Minimalist Program, grammaticalization), Complexity Theory (Self-Organizing Criticality) and quantitative linguistics (corpus linguistics, Zipf curves), it analyzes the input and output languages both theoretically and empirically, building on the contribution of the different source theories in a detailed and explicit manner.

Original languageEnglish
PublisherOxford University Press
Number of pages254
Volume9780199565962
ISBN (Electronic)9780191725616
ISBN (Print)9780199565962
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 May 2011

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Publisher Copyright:
© Oxford University Press, 2011.

Keywords

  • Child utterances
  • Complexity theory
  • Formalistic linguistic theory
  • Linguistic input
  • Linguistic theory
  • Parental speech
  • Quantitative linguistics
  • Resultant output
  • Syntactic learning process

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